Internet facsimile communication system, internet facsimile communication method and storage medium storing internet facsimile communication program

Abstract

An Internet facsimile communication system for sending a document from a sending device to a receiving device via an Internet mail, in which the sending device includes a sending unit that sends the document with urgent designation information added thereto to the receiving device; and the receiving device includes: an information unit that informs reception of an urgent document if the document received from the sending device has the urgent designation information attached thereto; and a print control unit that immediately prints out the received document about which the reception of the urgent document has been informed by the information unit.

1 . An Internet facsimile communication system for sending a document from a sending device to a receiving device via an Internet mail, wherein: 
 the sending device comprises a sending unit that sends the document with urgent designation information added thereto to the receiving device; and    the receiving device comprises:    an information unit that informs reception of an urgent document if the document received from the sending device has the urgent designation information attached thereto; and    a print control unit that immediately prints out the received document about which the reception of the urgent document has been informed by the information unit.    
   
   
       2 . The internet facsimile communication system according to  claim 1 , wherein: 
 the receiving device further comprises a notification unit that informs an output completion notice to the sending device if the received document having the urgent designation information attached thereto was normally printed out by the print control unit; and    the sending unit further comprises a judging unit that monitors reception of the output completion notice and, if the output completion notice was not received within a prescribed time, judges as a transmission error of the document having the urgent designation information attached thereto.    
   
   
       3 . An internet facsimile communication method for sending a document from a sending device to a receiving device via an Internet mail, comprising: 
 sending the document with urgent designation information attached thereto by a sending unit of the sending device to the receiving device;    informing the reception of an urgent document by an information unit of the receiving device if the document received from the sending device has urgent designation information attached thereto;    immediately printing out the received document about which the information unit has informed the reception of the urgent document by a print control unit of the receiving device;    notifying an output completion notice to the sending device by a notification unit of the receiving device if the received document having the urgent designation information attached thereto was normally printed out by the print control unit; and    judging as a transmission error of the document having the urgent designation information attached thereto by a judging unit of the sending device if the reception of the output completion notice being monitored by the sending unit was not received within a prescribed time.    
   
   
       4 . A storage medium readable by a computer, the storage medium storing an Internet facsimile communication program of instructions executable by the computer to perform a function for Internet facsimile communication to send a document from a sending device to a receiving device via an Internet mail, the function comprising: 
 sending the document with urgent designation information attached thereto from the sending device to the receiving device;    informing the reception of an urgent document by the receiving device if the document received from the sending device has the urgent designation information attached thereto;    immediately printing out the received document about which the reception of the urgent document has been informed;    notifying an output completion notice from the receiving device to the sending device if the received document which has the urgent designation information attached thereto was normally printed out; and    judging by the sending device as a transmission error of the document having the urgent designation information attached thereto if the reception of the output completion notice being monitored was not received within a prescribed time.